Cleaning-rod for rifles.



- PATBNTED new. 17 1905.

No 802m F. E. MUZZY.

CLEANING ROD ron RIFLES, APPLIOATION FILED SEPT- 29 9 4 v .7. I F L UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

FRED E. MUZZY, OF CHICOPEE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, OF CHIOOPEE FALLS, MASSA- OHUSETTS, A CORPORATION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed September 29, 1904. Serial No. 226,477.

To all 1072 0172 it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED E. MUZZY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicopee Falls, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cleaning- Rods for Rifles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in cleaning-rods or ramrods for rifles, revolvers, and other firearms, and has for its object to equip an implement of this character with a guard or shield for the edge of the bore of the barrel.

Cleaning-rods as heretofore made with a circular grip or handle have by careless use and repeated impact of the grip against the end of the barrel caused the edge of the bore to become upset or turned in and in some in stances mutilated, thus retarding the discharge and velocity of the projectile and also affecting the course of the latter in its flight; but the present invention is designed to obviate these disadvantages by constructing the grip or handle of the rod with a protruding offset impact portion so located and arranged with relation to the rod proper that the edge of the bore of the barrel is never engaged by the grip or rod in the operation of cleaning the rifle.

For a full understanding of the construction, merits, and advantages of my invention reference is to be had to the following description and the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the end of a rifle-barrel with the handle end of a cleaning-rod in the bore thereof and showing in dotted lines another position of the grip and rod relatively to the bore of the barrel. Fig. 2 illustrates the old form of grip applied to a barrel that has been injured, as above set forth.

Making renewed reference to the drawings, 5 designates the barrel of a rifle, revolver, or other firearm, the bore 6 of which is provided with the usual rifling 7. 4

The cleaner-rod or ramrod 8 has its end bent to form a grip or handle 9, which is provided with a guard or shield 10, arranged adjacent to the rod proper, preferably on each side thereof, so as to engage the solid metal at the end of the barrel well away from the edge of the bore. This guard is formed by bending the rod outward and forward, as at 11, at an acute angle to the rod proper, forming a protruding offset impact or contact surface 12 for the solid end of the barrel. From this impactsurface the rod is extended upwardly or rear- Wardly in a curve to provide a ring or loop which constitutes the grip. The ring terminates in an upward extension 11, which is also at an acute angle with the rod proper and has its extremity overlap the outward bend 11, as at 11 so as to give it a substantial bearing on the rod proper when the latter is subjected to compression. This upward bend 11 provides a second protruding ofl'set impact-surface 12 on the other side of the rod proper. Fromthis construction it will be seen that the protruding contact or impact surfaces 12 and 12 provide a guard for the edge of the bore of the barrel, inasmuch as all portions of the grip are prevented from contacting with such edge in the operation of ramming or cleaning the rifle. These contact portions are preferably arranged at such distances on each side of the rod proper that when the rod is in engagement with one side of the bore, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the contact portion on the other side will not then engage the edge of the bore.

To fully demonstrate the advantages of my improved guard, l have shown in Fig. 2 a barrel with the edge a of the bore upset or turned over and inward by the repeated impacts of the old form of grip 6, which is circular and extends from the rod cat an obtuse angle, thus permitting the grip adjacent to the rod to impinge against the edge of the ore.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. An implement of the class described comprising a rod proper, a hand-grip formed on the end of said rod and having a protruding angular extension at the juncture of the rod proper to form an impact-surface for the end of the barrel, at a distance from the edge of the bore.

2. An implement of the class described comjuncture With the rod proper and also having acute angle to the rod proper upon each side IO its end disposed at an acute angle to the rod thereof and constituting a guard for the edge on the opposite side thereof. of the bore of the barrel, substantially as 3. An implement of the class described comspecified.

5 prising a rod proper having one end bent to p r form a ring-shaped grip'with the extremity FRED of the grip overlapping the bend at the junc- Witnesses: ture of the rod proper, said grip having pro- A. H. GRIFFIN,

truding offset impact-surfaces arranged at an J. F. CARRAHER. 

